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公开(公告)号:US09742374B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-22
申请号:US14555371
申请日:2014-11-26
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: George Maxim , Baker Scott , Dirk Robert Walter Leipold
Abstract: RF communications circuitry, which includes a first RF filter structure and RF detection circuitry, is disclosed. The first RF filter structure includes a first group of RF resonators, which include a first pair of weakly coupled RF resonators coupled to a signal path of a first RF signal. One of the first group of RF resonators provides a first sampled RF signal. The RF detection circuitry detects the first sampled RF signal to provide a first detected signal. The first RF filter structure adjusts a first filtering characteristic of the first RF filter structure based on the first detected signal.
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公开(公告)号:US09735850B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-15
申请号:US15084142
申请日:2016-03-29
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Nadim Khlat , Marcus Granger-Jones
CPC classification number: H04B7/0608 , H04B1/0053 , H04B1/0064 , H04B1/0458 , H04B1/18 , H04B1/401 , H04B7/0602 , H04B7/0802
Abstract: Antenna swapping circuitry includes a first pole, a second pole, a first throw, a second throw, and a number of switching elements. A first switching element is coupled between the first pole and the first throw. A second switching element is coupled between the first pole and the second throw. A third switching element is coupled between the second pole and the first throw. A fourth switching element is coupled between the second pole and the second throw. A linearity of the first switching element and the fourth switching element is higher in a closed state of operation than in an open state of operation. A linearity of the second switching element and a third switching element is higher in an open state of operation than in a closed state of operation.
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公开(公告)号:US09735755B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-15
申请号:US14876426
申请日:2015-10-06
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Gernot Fattinger , Alireza Tajic
CPC classification number: H03H9/02157 , H03H3/02 , H03H9/02086 , H03H9/02118 , H03H9/132 , H03H9/171 , H03H9/175 , H03H2003/025
Abstract: Embodiments of a Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator in which an outer region of the BAW resonator is engineered in such a manner that lateral leakage of mechanical energy from an active region of the BAW resonator is reduced, and methods of fabrication thereof, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a BAW resonator includes a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, a second electrode on a second surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the first electrode, and a passivation layer on a surface of the second electrode opposite the piezoelectric layer, the passivation layer having a thickness (TPA). The BAW resonator also includes a material on the second surface of the piezoelectric layer adjacent to the second electrode in an outer region of the BAW resonator. The additional material has a thickness that is n times the thickness (TPA) of the passivation layer.
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公开(公告)号:US09735044B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-15
申请号:US14715830
申请日:2015-05-19
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Julio C. Costa
IPC: H01L21/00 , H01L21/762 , H01L27/12 , H01L23/29 , H01L23/36 , H01L23/373 , H01L29/786 , H01L23/31 , H01L21/56
Abstract: A semiconductor device and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a polymer substrate and an interfacial layer over the polymer substrate. A buried oxide layer resides over the interfacial layer, and a device layer with at least a portion of a field effect device resides over the buried oxide layer. The polymer substrate is molded over the interfacial adhesion layer and has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity greater than 1012 Ohm-cm. Methods of manufacture for the semiconductor device include removing a wafer handle to expose a first surface of the buried oxide layer, disposing the interfacial adhesion layer onto the first surface of the buried oxide layer, and molding the polymer substrate onto the interfacial adhesion layer.
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公开(公告)号:US09729191B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-08
申请号:US14659314
申请日:2015-03-16
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Nadim Khlat , Marcus Granger-Jones
CPC classification number: H04B1/525
Abstract: RF circuitry, which includes a first hybrid RF coupler, a second hybrid RF coupler, and a third hybrid RF coupler, is disclosed. The first hybrid RF coupler is coupled to a first RF antenna. The second hybrid RF coupler is configured to receive a first lowband RF receive signal via the first RF antenna. The first hybrid RF coupler is configured to receive one of a first midband RF receive signal and a first highband RF receive signal via the first RF antenna. The third hybrid RF coupler configured to receive another of the first midband RF receive signal and the first highband RF receive signal via the first RF antenna.
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公开(公告)号:US09722552B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-01
申请号:US14790096
申请日:2015-07-02
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Kevin Wesley Kobayashi
CPC classification number: H03F3/193 , H03F1/342 , H03F3/245 , H03F3/3435 , H03F3/345 , H03F3/3455 , H03F2200/129 , H03F2200/18 , H03F2200/333 , H03F2200/451 , H03F2200/63 , H03F2200/93 , H04L5/1461
Abstract: A circuit that includes a Darlington transistor pair having an input transistor and an output transistor configured to generate an output signal at an output node in response to an input signal received through an input node is disclosed. The circuit has a feedback coupling network coupled between the output node and the input node for feeding back to the input node a portion of an amplified version of the input signal that passes through the input transistor. The circuit further includes a bias feedback network that includes a bias transistor and a resistive network that consists of only resistive elements such that no inductors and no capacitors are provided within the bias feedback network.
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公开(公告)号:US09722492B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-01
申请号:US14665366
申请日:2015-03-23
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Chris Levesque , William David Southcombe , David E. Jones , Scott Yoder , Terry J. Stockert
IPC: H04K1/02 , H02M3/156 , H03F3/193 , H03F1/02 , H03F3/195 , H03F3/21 , H03F3/24 , H03F3/60 , H03F3/68 , H03F3/72 , H03F3/191 , H03F3/19 , H04L25/03 , H04L25/06 , H04W88/06
CPC classification number: H02M3/156 , H03F1/0227 , H03F1/0261 , H03F1/0277 , H03F3/19 , H03F3/191 , H03F3/193 , H03F3/195 , H03F3/211 , H03F3/245 , H03F3/602 , H03F3/68 , H03F3/72 , H03F2200/171 , H03F2200/222 , H03F2200/27 , H03F2200/318 , H03F2200/336 , H03F2200/387 , H03F2200/411 , H03F2200/414 , H03F2200/417 , H03F2200/451 , H03F2200/504 , H03F2200/534 , H03F2200/537 , H03F2200/541 , H03F2203/21106 , H03F2203/21142 , H03F2203/21157 , H04L25/03828 , H04L25/06 , H04W88/06
Abstract: A direct current (DC)-DC converter that includes a first switching converter and a multi-stage filter is disclosed. The multi-stage filter includes at least a first inductance (L) capacitance (C) filter and a second LC filter coupled in series between the first switching converter and a DC-DC converter output. The first LC filter has a first LC time constant and the second LC filter has a second LC time constant, which is less than the first LC time constant. The first LC filter includes a first capacitive element having a first self-resonant frequency, which is about equal to a first notch frequency of the multi-stage filter.
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公开(公告)号:US20170214385A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-27
申请号:US15087277
申请日:2016-03-31
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Kushal Bhattacharjee
CPC classification number: H03H9/02228 , H03H3/0072 , H03H3/0077 , H03H3/02 , H03H3/08 , H03H9/0009 , H03H9/02244 , H03H9/02259 , H03H9/02275 , H03H9/02338 , H03H9/02787 , H03H9/0296 , H03H9/0538 , H03H9/13 , H03H9/131 , H03H9/145 , H03H9/14564 , H03H9/15 , H03H9/17 , H03H9/25 , H03H2003/027 , H03H2009/02165 , H03H2009/02496 , H03H2009/155
Abstract: A micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) guided wave device includes a plurality of electrodes arranged below a piezoelectric layer (e.g., either embedded in a slow wave propagation layer or supported by a suspended portion of the piezoelectric layer) and configured for transduction of a lateral acoustic wave in the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer permits one or more additions or modifications to be made thereto, such as trimming (thinning) of selective areas, addition of loading materials, sandwiching of piezoelectric layer regions between electrodes to yield capacitive elements or non-linear elastic convolvers, addition of sensing materials, and addition of functional layers providing mixed domain signal processing utility.
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公开(公告)号:US09705463B2
公开(公告)日:2017-07-11
申请号:US14554774
申请日:2014-11-26
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Baker Scott , George Maxim , Dirk Robert Walter Leipold
IPC: H03F3/30 , H03F1/02 , H03F3/21 , H03F3/19 , H03G3/30 , H03F1/52 , H04B1/04 , H03F1/32 , H03F3/68 , H03F1/22 , H03F1/56 , H03F3/45 , H03F3/193
CPC classification number: H03G3/3036 , H03F1/0211 , H03F1/0272 , H03F1/223 , H03F1/32 , H03F1/523 , H03F1/565 , H03F3/19 , H03F3/193 , H03F3/24 , H03F3/45179 , H03F3/45394 , H03F3/68 , H03F2200/324 , H03F2200/387 , H03F2200/451 , H03F2200/471 , H03F2201/3236 , H03G3/3042 , H04B1/0475 , H04B2001/0408 , H04B2001/0416 , H04B2001/0425
Abstract: Radio frequency power amplifier circuitry includes an amplifier element, power supply modulation circuitry, and bias modulation circuitry. The amplifier element is configured to amplify an RF input signal using a modulated power supply signal and a modulated bias signal to produce an RF output signal. The power supply modulation circuitry is coupled to the amplifier element and configured to provide the modulated power supply signal. The bias modulation circuitry is coupled to the amplifier element and the power supply modulation circuitry and configured to receive the modulated power supply signal and provide the modulated bias signal. Notably, the modulated bias signal is a function of the modulated power supply signal such that the modulated bias signal is configured to maintain a small signal gain of the amplifier element and the phase of the RF input signal at a constant value as the modulated power supply signal changes.
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公开(公告)号:US09688529B2
公开(公告)日:2017-06-27
申请号:US14718408
申请日:2015-05-21
Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Inventor: Jan Edward Vandemeer , Jonathan Hale Hammond
CPC classification number: B81B7/0006 , B81B2201/014 , B81B2207/092 , B81B2207/095 , B81B2207/096 , B81C1/00269 , B81C1/00301 , B81C2203/0109 , B81C2203/035 , H01L2224/48137
Abstract: A glass wafer assembly is disclosed. In one aspect, the glass wafer assembly comprises a first glass wafer and a second glass wafer that are bonded by a conductive sealing ring. The conductive sealing ring defines a substantially hermetically sealed cavity between the first glass wafer and the second glass wafer. In another aspect, the first glass wafer and the second glass wafer each comprise a plurality of conductive through glass vias (TGVs). At least one active device is disposed in the substantially hermetically sealed cavity and can be electrically coupled to a conductive TGV in the first glass wafer and a conductive TGV in the second glass wafer to enable flexible electrical routing through the glass wafer assembly without wire bonding and over molding. As a result, it is possible to reduce footprint and height while improving radio frequency (RF) performance of the glass wafer assembly.
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